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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2026-11769 json

Operator - Namespaced User Path Traversal

published 2026-06-13 4 mo ago modified 2026-08-27 2 mo ago also GHSA-fcw4-wwqm-m8cf , GO-2026-5355 , EUVD-2026-36641

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

We have released version 5.24.0 of the Grafana Operator. This patch includes a MEDIUM severity security fix for a path traversal/privilege escalation vulnerability in the Grafana Operator.

### Summary

The Grafana Operator supports loading dashboards & library panels using the jsonnet data templating language. The jsonnet expression is evaluated in the context of the operator manager pod.

### Impact

It is possible for a malicious user who can create Dashboard or LibraryPanel resources for a Grafana instance to obtain the Kubernetes service account token of the Grafana Operator manager.

### Affected versions

All Grafana Operator versions <= 5.23

### Solutions and mitigations

All installations should be upgraded as soon as possible.

As a workaround, the following ValidatingAdmissionPolicy prevent the creation or modification of jsonnet based resources:

apiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1 kind: ValidatingAdmissionPolicy metadata: name: "prevent-jsonnet-dashboards" spec: failurePolicy: Fail matchConstraints: resourceRules: - apiGroups: ["grafana.integreatly.org"] apiVersions: ["v1beta1"] operations: ["CREATE", "UPDATE"] resources: ["grafanadashboards", "grafanalibrarypanels"] validations: - expression: "!has(object.spec.jsonnetLib)" --- apiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1 kind: ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding metadata: name: "prevent-jsonnet-dashboards-clusterwide" spec: policyName: "prevent-jsonnet-dashboards" validationActions: [Deny]

### Acknowledgement

We would like to thank Artem Cherezov for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/v5 5.24.0
  • grafana grafana_operator 5.24.0
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-11769 updated cvss 6.4

grafana-operator: Grafana Operator: Privilege escalation and information disclosure via path traversal in jsonnet templating.

  • Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2 3scale-amp2/3scale-rhel7-operator, 3scale-amp2/3scale-rhel9-operator, 3scale-amp2/3scale-operator-bundle Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3 rhosdt/tempo-rhel9-operator
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.4 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
CNA 4.0 6.4 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/v5
<5.24.0
5.24.0
go github.com/grafana/grafana-operator
<=2.0.0
all versions
 no fix listed
go github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/v3
all versions
 no fix listed
go github.com/grafana/grafana-operator/v4
all versions
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • Grafana Grafana Operator

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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